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Hi there, it's been way to long since I updated my DA journal.  I have been busy teaching drawing online and also working on commissions.  I'll place a few new drawings in my gallery and I'll place more info on the lessons below.  On a personal note I found out Christmas day I will become a grandma :) I look forward to meeting that sweet little baby and spoiling her with tons of love!  Life is great and I couldn't be happier.  

UPDATE:
On July 4th our grandaughter Riley was born!  We are all so very happy to have this little angel in our lives. :)

Other news: I am the featured artist at the Artisan's Gallery in Middleburgh, NY 12122.  Many peices of my work will be on display and for sale from July 4th to August 4th. If you are in the area please stop by.


The drawing lessons are month to month through emails. Basically I work with you on a drawing from the beginning to the end.  Drawing in a hyper-realistic style is not hard to do but it does take time and a great amount of patience. The best part about the lessons is you work each week on small sections (till they are finished) but only on as much as time allows. I check over your weekly update inch by inch and give written help and also visual help.  You can read more about the lessons on my site here:  
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After reading the info on my site you can then email me for prices and to sign up.  I have seen lots of improvement from many of my students.  Before and after images can be seen on the "students" page.  Please know the months fill up quickly so space is limited.

At this time I want to thank all of you for the comments on my work and favorites.  :)
Take care ~Linda

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Linda Huber
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United States
I'm a self taught artist and strive for realism in each piece using only graphite pencils. Many of my original art and prints are for sale and I take commissions...my prices vary depending on size and what I draw, for further information visit my website or email me. ~Linda
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:iconstevegillettart:
Mood: Wow! ~Stevegillettart May 14, 2013  New member Hobbyist Traditional Artist
Truly amazing stuff... It's great to have top artists like yourself on dA so you can answer questions and be inspirational to others.. me included.
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~NatalyaShay May 4, 2013  New member Student General Artist
What brand of graphite pencil do you recommend most? I LOVE your works:)
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:iconsockflipper:
Fantastic gallery you are truly gifted
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:iconsafiaz:
~SafiaZ Apr 16, 2013  New member
What does really surprise me is not just the wonderfull work of an artist, but the fact that most of those great artist say they are autodidact!! really how you do that, I've tried to devolop myself but I abondond quicly because I can't bearly see real improvement! so I return to just sketch on my free time :(
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:iconimaginee:
Drawing should be fun and somewhat challenging too. Also always work on subjects you enjoy.

There are a few very important keys needed to do your best work. The reference photo used needs to be of high quality, you can not draw highly realistic drawings from small, poor lighting, unclear photos. Your drawing needs to be large enough to properly render lines and details realistically. The paper you use should be strong (Bristol is good) to uphold layering, detailing and blending, and pencils need to be a nice range (H, B and 4b). The number one key to drawing is "observation", time and patience should also be on that key chain! :D
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*Shelfcloud Apr 12, 2013  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
I have a stupid question...

Really a lot of photo/hyperrealists work very solid and patterned. Like you draw the full extension from one part and leave the other as clean as a whistle. I've seen that pattern back with Dirk, Armin etc... What is the technical benefit of doing this way?

Reason I ask I always make weak and sloppy fields...chaotic...and yet, for some reason I antagonist the flaws and errors to match them out. I "collect"/emerge towards a high definition and clean result with very high detailing. Strangely I always manage to get a resolution that is so thin and sophisticated it hits the maximum tolerance of the paper, like with hair. But not likely I will succeed getting proportions and shading right if I would use grid or like you, making a very solid state before I progress. Somehow it breaks me in my way of doing.

And strangely I always read you shouldn't blur the base too much, because it will haunt you back later to make a blurry result; but that is not what is happening; it is the other way around. If I stay clean, then my end result will be less in resolution if you get what I mean?

I have to work everywhere in the drawing at the same time so it seems. Though my drawings take a long time, I have to shift everytime because I'm so quickly burned out if I work in one area at the time.

Thank you in advance for your time and efforts to read...
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:iconimaginee:
Not stupid at all!
 
For me working on one small area until it’s finished is best and also a personal preference. I don’t work all over the drawing because I find it to be unproductive.  Each small area of a drawing needs my undivided attention, so I work an area never putting any time constricts on myself until I’m very happy. 

The number one key to drawing is observation, by studying every tiny part of the subject/reference and then working on a detailed map (outline) of the entire drawing you are halfway there...this map is also a pre-drawing so to speak. An outline does take time to complete but by doing so you will know your way around the drawing and that will make the journey 100% more enjoyable!

I do go back and re-adjust areas as needed...besides the resemblance, all of my drawings need to have the correct proportions, details, lines, tonal values and tonal transitions. The techniques I use and the way I go about a drawing work for me. :)
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*Shelfcloud Apr 25, 2013  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
Yes, that is the reason why I've approached you...
I agree on the main advices you spoke of. I find it unproductive too. The observation and my understanding is good. It is ahead of my technique, instead of the other way around as most developing artists. That "puts me in a favorable position" to get the better works as I've discussed it...but...

If I work solid, I can relate it very local and do it right, but I can't adjust the other parts to it somehow. It is like a contrast or something and intimidates the crap out of me. I never use grid, because it shatters my image, breaks my vision and disturbs my observation; I'm derived from the natural content, focusing on getting proportions right. I can't seem to overcome that, though I can shout the advice in return. I'm very impatient on that part, however, I still manage drawings over 400+ hours...

I know the detailing swallows time, but I can't neglect the need for it. But I would like to get more effective to the result, so it is a technical problem. And I've noticed that the experienced realistic artist such as yourself, use a method to work very solid on areas. I don't understand one bit how you put those "minidrawings" together, for I can't manage that at all. Instead, I work as Trung CAO (Artpapa, you might know him); I grow the drawing, switching to build up and emerge the piece as whole. I go directly to target, because I'm afraid I will miss the flaw later.

At one hand, I would like to draw solid, but then I have to make some adjustments like you've said and then the quality is somewhat less again. On the other hand I cut and close in, slice-erase or whatever to get my work more sophisticated. At the same time it provides a lot of natural blending I don't want to have either: quality loss, or not as reachable as I wanted to.

What I'm trying to say I have found a way to communicate in my own artistic language, but I'm missing something I don't get my fingers behind. I have some strange WIPS and like stage 6 or so I think: "How will I ever get a result out of that crap...but I always seem to be very resilient on that part; it just consumes quite more time for a result that some do in a few hours. I don't compare to other artist that much, but I feel I'm the outlier in this; it is extreme. The creepy uncertainty is that, I have a hell lot of devotion and patience, but I feel it is compensation the fact I can't draw...you understand me? It feels like I can't really distinct myself if someone else would have the same patience, in fact, making me feel quite inferior.

I shouldn't care and actually I don't. If they watch, fine if they don't ok; I draw for my own...but I have that burning desire to get a message, a drawing across with such power, I feel the incredible scream to throw that out and I want it to be so damn good; I really want to throw anything in it. But I'm technically just not ready for it I'm afraid. Maybe sending some WIPS would be useful to aid my story, but then again, what benefit brings me to that, except I'm only bothering. I don't want some kind of attention, but I want to solve a problem. I just don't know...

And my apology for my rudeness for not thanking you for your time in the first place.


Mike
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:iconimaginee:
Mike only you can change the way you work. You said: "I have found a way to communicate in my own artistic language, but I'm missing something I don't get my fingers behind."

You know how each artist is unique, how each starts and then works on a piece a certain way, a comfortable way...well I do believe if the process causes frustration and/or the end results are undesirable then the only thing that will help is a change.

I have been drawing for 50 years, throughout those years I made changes because I was not getting the results I desired. I adapted new ways on how I approach a drawing and work on it. That great passion for drawing which was born into me is exactly the same, but now I am able to fully enjoy it!! :D

I do hope you find the answers you seek.
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Mood: Wow! ~artworksbynet Apr 9, 2013  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
your works are amazing! You are a genius
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